Tag

We call upon the Obama Administration to pledge to accept at least 65,000 refugees from Syria for resettlement in the United States by 2016. Germany allowed 20,000 migrants into the country over the weekend and is preparing for 800,000 this year.

The Coast Guard officers who rushed to the site after being alerted by a Greek armed forces patrol recovered the girl’s body and rescued 12 people, reported Xinhua news agency.

PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull will name his new ministry line-up on Sunday afternoon, ending rampant speculation of who’s in and who’s out. His track record, in fact, is one of being far less consultative with colleagues than many have liked.

Promotion… Michaelia Cash has been named as a possible new minister in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s cabinet.

But the warm words of support are all that Gretzky can do for the Conservative leader – as a long-time resident of the United States, it is highly unlikely the hockey legend will be allowed to vote in the upcoming election. While your government has been juggling numbers,...

White House spokesman Josh Earnest made the announcement at his daily press conference one day after Secretary of State John Kerry said that the country was committed to taking in more Syrian refugees to respond to the immigration crisis that was affecting Europe, reports Efe.

The White House said it would use the talks to urge Russian Federation to focus its actions in Syria on countering the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.

“The switch voters are between those two parties, and they are going to go at each other”, said Ipsos Public Affairs pollster John Wright. And, if you looked closely, Mr. Mulcair’s tie did have a hint of orange – a pattern of flower-like circles with...

U.S. military officials appear to be preparing to scale back a high-profile programme to train and arm thousands of rebels to fight the Islamic State group in Syria following a top general’s embarrassing admission that the $500mn scheme had produced just “four or...

Speaking from the sidelines, Green party leader Elizabeth May said the debate “touched on climate, but never talked about the urgency”.

Nolan and Ellison have been pushing for even more – between 100,000 and 200,000 refugees to be relocated in the United States by the end of 2016.

“It’s a small number, the ones that are in the fight is, we’re talking four or five”, General Lloyd Austin said during testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee.

“This is going to require cooperation with all the European countries and the U.S. and the worldwide community in order to ensure that people are safe, that they are treated with shared humanity and that we also may have to deal with the source of the problem which is the...

‘Every policy of any rational, constructive government is always under review, ‘ he said. “I don’t think it was a surprise to anyone that the six month-period had come and gone without there being any improvement in the polls”.

Germany took in 218,000 in the first seven months and, amid last week’s scenes of migrants heading westward on foot from Budapest’s jammed train station, expects as many as 800,000 for the full year.